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17/07/2024

Gnam!

07/05/2024

PASSEGGIATA ⁠⁠🇮🇹
n /pas·seg·già·ta/⁠
The time-honoured Italian tradition of taking an early evening stroll through the square, old town or seafront. In Italy, fresh air is essential for digesting a bountiful Sunday Lunch, or working up an appetite before dinner!⁠

Photo: © Ferdinando Scianna
In frame: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, 1995

18/04/2024

Day 4, Milan Design Week.
Hybridisation - Zaha Hadid Design x Karimoku.

17/04/2024

Fuorisalone.it

HOUSE OF SWITZERLAND
Collective exhibition Switzerland
In a collective exhibition that brings together designers, studios, universities, brands and galleries from all over Switzerland, the Swiss Foundation for Culture Pro Helvetia and Presenza Svizzera shine the spotlight on a large group of talents linked to the country and the world of contemporary design.

14/04/2024

Tomorrow will start the Fuorisalone 2024
Milan Design Week, April 15- 21

All eyes on Fuorisalone: designers from around the globe are converging in Milan to exchange ideas and showcase projects that influence our current reality. Through a myriad of events, exhibitions, and installations scattered throughout the city, they aim to shape our present.

From tomorrow you will have a glimpse of the city, and the best Design, into the heart of Milan!

06/04/2024

Buon weekend.
https://fb.watch/rgKoKjSJnc/

26/03/2024

ITALIAN EASTER SWEETS 🥰

Among the traditional Easter sweets is the COLOMBA (dove), which has a symbolic and unmistakable power. For its form, of course, a symbol of peace, love and salvation. Long before Easter, all supermarkets from north to south are flooded with these goodies. There is a big difference in quality. You can buy the industrially produced ones in every store, but the taste cannot be compared to those from small private productions.

The origin of this delicacy is very ancient, although the name Easter dove correctly refers to a commercial idea from the 1930s, when the confectionery company Motta, known for its panettone (which is sold at Christmas), had the intuition to create an Easter dessert based on the Christmas possible to use the same machines, but also the same ingredients, and not only during Christmas.

In addition to the Easter doves, large, chocolate Easter eggs with a surprise are bought for children and adults, which the children exchange with each other. The egg is a symbol of life that renews itself and is a blessing of fertility.
Happy Easter!

24/03/2024

Did you know who invented the bottle of Campari Soda?

1932, Fortunato Depero, representative of Italian futurism, designs the iconic bottle of Campari Soda, the first disposable aperitif, something absolutely innovative, just as innovative, futuristic, was the bottle designed by Depero: in the shape of a truncated cone, in glass frosted, without a paper label, typical of all spirits, but with the writing stamped in relief.
All this made Campari Soda a product which, breaking conventions, can be considered revolutionary, from all points of view, perfectly in line with the futurist movement.

The bottle of Campari Soda is further testimony to the creative richness that developed in that period of our history which ran from 1922 to 1944.

22/03/2024

Ciao a tutti!

⭐ If you're an Italian 🇮🇹 coffee lover or curious to learn the vocabulary coffee options you can order in Italy & some basic words to order a coffee of your choice - Here are some tips:

Un Caffè (kah-FE) - An espresso/caffé; a small cup of strong coffee.
Un Caffè lungo (Kah-FE LOON-go) - a long black.
Un Caffè ristretto (kah-FE ri-STRE-to) - an extra strong coffee (double the strength, concentrated) in which the stream of coffee is stopped before the normal amount.
Caffè corretto (kah-FE ko-RE-to) - with a drizzle of liquor. Sambuca, amaretto or grappa.
Un macchiato (mahk-YAH-to) - An espresso "stained" with a drop or 3 of milk.
Un Caffellatte (kah-FE LAH-te) - Espresso with hot milk, without froth and served in a glass in Italy.
Un Cappuccino (pronounced kah-pu-CHEE-no) - a shot of espresso in a larger cup with steamed milk and froth.
Il Caffè Piccolo DOESN'T exist! 😱

16/03/2024

Ciao a tutti!

Our new article is about... SLOWFOOD!
Savoring the Slow Food Experience: Rediscovering the Essence of Italian Living in Piedmont 🍽️🍷

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Eating Italian, living Italian: Slow Food offers high quality within everyone’s reach. Last week we were in Italy, in Biella, back in Piedmont after 10 years. A return to the roots, we talked about it in the previous article. But return to the roots also means returning to eating well, unhurriedly...